Retrieving Office X Product Key

[paulridgley]

Hi, just wondered if anyone knew how to retrieve a product key currenty
being used by office x, we have all they keys but we need to know wich
PC is using wich key, any help would be appreciated
Paul

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Hi, just wondered if anyone knew how to retrieve a product key currenty
being used by office x, we have all they keys but we need to know wich
PC is using wich key, any help would be appreciated

The Product ID, which is generated from the the CD Key, seems to be a
one-way hash, which means you can't determine which CD Key was used from
the PID.

However, it's not that hard to remove the PID so that you can reenter
the CD Key:

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

However, it's not that hard to remove the PID so that you can reenter
the CD Key:

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html

Great!! I've seen the question several times in several newsgroups and
could not find the link on your siute for some reason (I probably was
not very awake).
I remembered the fiels and the paths, but it so much easier to provide
your link


Corentin

 

[paulridgley]

Thanks for the info, the funny thing is right before we dediced we need
to find out wich PC is using wich Product Key we used your site to
reset the key as it was being used on another PC, and i dont think we
want to reset them all just yet, mabie when we have to